": y. * ' t Wl \ 4 FINE STANDARD !9,240,000 Neighbor's Comm Seem* a i i Chicago, Hi., Aug. 6.—Judge Kenesaw M. Landis Saturday in the United States District Court fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana $29,§40,000 for violations of the law againit accepting rebates from railroads. The fine Is the largest ever assessed against any individual or any corporation in the history of American criminal jurisprudence, and is slightly more than 131 times as ^great as the amount received by the company through ita rebating operations. The case will be carried to the higher courts by the defendant company. The penalty Imposed upon the company is the maxi- mum permitted under the law, and it was announced at the end of a long opinion In which the methods and practices of the Standard Oil Company were mercilessly scored. Judge Landis commenced reading his decision at 10 o'clock and occupied about one hour in its delivery. He reviewed the facts in the case, took up the arguments of the attorney...

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UPi U t: t . f* > • * '.V« Wednesday afternoon Ella, the little 10-year-old child of R. W. Matthowa of Grange, fell into a pot of boiling water nnd was fatally scalded. George O. Robinson, former director of the mint, assumed his new position as President of the Commercial Na- tional Bank on his arrival in Chicago from Washington Friday. Mexico in the past fiscal year, end- ing June 30, 19f)7, imported from the United States to the amount of JOG. 248,098, as against $58,182,278 during the previous year. With Mayor Simmons driving the golden spike, the building of the street railway line at Denton was lnaugiinit- e! Wednesday in the presence of sev- eral hundred people. The breech lock of a 100-millimeter gun was blown off Friday on board the gunnery schoolshlp Couronne dur- ing target practice in Sallna Road- stead, France, and three persons wera killed and Ave wounded. At the home of her father, Nofrio Filpello, six miles north of Bryan, Thursday evening, a seven year-old Italia...

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A • . v\ 4V. ' v • NG AGO SCENE RECALLED BY PAROKEYAL. nderetandlng, He No Longer (P«lt Aggrieved That He Had Sac- rificed His Evening Smoke —Willing Victim. "One evening at dinner in the lat- ter part of May," said Mr. Parokeya), "the wife asked me if I wouldn't liko to go U> the May services at church that evening—with her, of course. I caught her ex-changing a glance across the table with our eldest boy, a U-ke of ten, when she made the suggestion to mo. Therefore said I to myself right away, it was a put up job. " 'Why, certainly, mother, I'll go— glad to,' said I, as hearty as I could make It, and then again I caught that significant exchange of glances be- tween the boy and his mother, just aa if they'd achieved some kind of a victory or other. "WeV, the boy executed his usual disappearance soon after dinner, and then, allowing me to burn up just one cigar, my wife began to hustle and bustle me around, and presently we were on our way to the May serv- ices. " 'Fine work for...

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£1 ill I I I i bvvt. J E JL D41\'CiER, Publisher. > A. T^aper Devoted to th.0 boai Interests of tho Poople. Mutn#ciri|*8' w, VOL 33. Li -> LINDEN. TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1907. HO. 35. SB— ■BP WANTED 1,OOOdireotoby Chnrchii Organizers, to organize the col- ored people of the United States into The Negro Farmer and La- borers' Educational, Co-Opera Si 'wm SUCCESS. Five years ago a business lirm in this city "went to the wall." It whs the old story. Tins senior partner, a man of MOTHER. No sweeter woman ever trod the earth than mother! BAPTIST T. G, Watson, Pastor MtadS."Charter. I i""'1"1" J"1™41"' T''*'"' ed by the State of Texas, and , Preachlng eVery 2nd and 4tl« Sunday ' honorable, a man <d integrity Copy-Righted by the United by the Pastor at U \. m. and at night. I whoso word was, literally, as State8, and Indorsed by the Exe-j Prayer meeting every other Thursday us J js bond. The younger eutivft Committee of the White night Farmerj Union of Texas; for further parti...

ifsi * ARBITRATION IS SOUGHT IMC CA&& COUNTY SUN JOHN DANGER, Publisher. "W: mm ...a HEp* rf MB iffe' • wssm Baafc'-f. • ■ HEBmwwVv ■BPfe Wpyc- BlSi! ■£ " y&m'W.- r'k^3Ki;' , r I 'USJUHaf i I r. V ' - ' , 1 . I mWI ■ f ■ ■ i i «SEfii I! 9m iSw'r iV & ram LINDEN, TEXAS Milaui County has placed the coun- ty tax rate at 40 cents. BUBONIC PLAQUE SHOWS UP IN THAT CITY. Citizens of Palestine have raised a $20,000 bonus and closed a deal which secures the extension of the State Hallway from Rusk to that place. On aH Sap train which was wrecked near Glddlngs was a car of mules. Four of the killed outright. animals were «F"" Dan Welch, a negro, a member of W. C. Maxwell's Ellis County convict gang, died in the camp near Sterrett last week of congestion. The Board of Health, says a Denl- son dispatch, has just begun to work on a program which will make Denl- son the cleanest city In the State. The new Ice plant at Comanche has Just been completed, and will at onoe ■begin the m...

ml i ■ ;KKif ■PS8S , I I l( L IS j I FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL I AND I CO-OPERATIVE UNION I L OF AMERICA I This is a good day to determine that you will be cheerful, come what may. It is the cheerful man who lives long and has many friends. Keep it always in mind that the Na- tional and the State Unions are of very small importance compared with the local Union. They are not to be ignored for this reason, but as your interests are centered in the locality in which you live, so your interest stands in your local Union, reach- ing out In lessening waves to the State and National Union. . There Is a lot of senseless fighting of corporations going on all the time, and some of our own men are encour- aging indiscriminate fights against all corporations and aggregations of capi- tal. It is the aggregation of capital that Is able to produce things cheaply and to market things expeditiously. We need large corporations, and we must have them; we will always have wealthy men. and we need them. The...

pips • •' 4 >'• .rf/*':," 7^r"k < *v '"" ' H"'* ^' ' '.'' • *' \ j,.,:. ... . INCLINED TO PEACE ENTRAL AMERICAN STATES ARE VERY WILLING. WILL MEET SECRETARY ROOT Visit of Secretary Root Already Begins to Dear Fruit. Gautemala Leads Them All. Washington, August 16. — Reports from Mexico of an Impending conflict between all Central American States except Costa Rica are received here witT. surprise and Incredulity. Ad- vices from that quarter received here up to this moment were to the effect that the asperities which caused the last Nicaraguan attack upon Acajutla, Salvador, have been smoothed down, under the combined influences of Mex- ico and the United States. Indeed, it was the belief of the State Department officials that arrange- ments are about to be perfected for a conference in Washington next faii of delegations of all Central American States. t A day or so ago Minister Lee at Gautemala City cabled that Guillermo Augerre, Minister of Gaut&mala, ac- companied by sev...